needlessly messianic articles written by ankur banerjee on anything that catches his fancy, which is quite a lot indeed - stuff like tech, quizzing, h2g2 - and cups of filthy liquid almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea
You know longer need to be a better know-it-all than all your friends if you use Yahoo! Mail these days. Yup, in an announcement on the official Yahoo! Mail blog today, they said that ALL mails sent through Yahoo! Mail - whether they be from free or Mail Plus accounts - will no longer have the advertisement tagline attached to these mails. Those were the ones which promoted other Yahoo! services.
It’s a small step, but a significant one. Frankly, I don’t think it made much of a difference to anyone whether they added it or not, but as time progress Yahoo! Mail certainly is moving faster on the innovation front. More importantly, their Mail Plus offering - and the incentive to upgrade to it - becomes lesser as they turn out more and more features to their 255 million plus mail users.
Google seems to be rolling out updates to its PageRank site ranking system ultra-quick these days. Only recently, my blog had been climbing a few vines, ending up at PR4 at one point of time. Plus, the new Alexa ratings system gave my blog a huge jump too. Plus, the huge number of visitors coming these days; plus…you get it don’t you?
Two days ago, Google set me to PR0. Not very sure why, whether I’m being penalised for anything, or because of the fact that Google’s bot got a time-out while reading my sitemap. Other search engines seem to be holding steady. Google itself is OK with showing my links in their searches. This PageRank tanking seems quite funny then…
A video I took while on my way back from Bangalore after giving the NTU entrance exam. I know the resolution is a bit low, but, oh well. Which reminds me, I fucking hate Google. I ran around everywhere on the Web trying to find out whether Google Video / Youtube supported 3GP videos - I later found out, they don’t, you need to convert your video) - and all that because Google’s just gave a smug little ‘we support many formats, including ones like…’. Basically, they didn’t bother to give the actual list of formats they support, and expect people to either waste their time uploading videos by trial-and-error, or sit down and convert videos.
Why didn’t I try uploading to Yahoo! Video in the first place? Because it doesn’t accept videos without an audio track, which my original video did not. This is probably to ensure people don’t upload pr0n, but can affect genuine users at times. I finally said “Screw Google”, added a very low volume white noise audio track, and put it on Yahoo! Video.
Talking of far-away centres, I’ve heard of some people ending up with getting their AIEEE centre in Port Blair (Andaman & Nicobar Islands)!!! Whoa, that’s one CBSE mess even I can’t figure out…
…not to some other place, but switching over to WordPress from sucky Blogger. I’m sick of Blogger’s restrictive environment, and failure to handle stuff like trackbacks, comments, different media files - and all the whole, being a food service. Just WAITING for the day when my Math Board exam gets over. The blog therefore, might be down temporarily in a few days.
